Mary Coleman

Mary ColemanProfessional Title: Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Professor of Political Science and Global StudiesEducation: BA, Jackson State University; MA, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Harvard Law Fellow and Woodrow Wilson International ScholarRepresentative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:

“The Rural Poor in the American South: Case Studies of Exits from 20th Century Poverty” in Poverty and Public Policy: A Global Journal of Income Insecurity, Aid and Welfare, University of California Berkeley Press, 2009

Legislators, Law and Public Policy: Explaining Political Change in Mississippi and the South (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993)

Dr. Coleman is the recipient of national teaching awards, is a Woodrow Wilson International Scholar and has participated in scores of humanities seminars in this country and abroad. She has received research awards from the National Science Foundation and has served on United Nations teams in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.